Raviv Ganchrow

Raviv is one of the Tutors for Field Studies 2011.

Raviv Ganchrow’s (1972) work focuses on interrelations between sound and space which he explores through sound installations, the development of sound-forming technologies such as wave field synthesis, as well as writing and curating. Raviv co-edited Immersed: Sound and architecture for OASE with Pnina Avidar and Julia Kursell (issue 78, 2009) and more recently co-curated the Sonority of Place conference with Carsten Stabenow at Tuned City, Tallinn, 2011.

Raviv’s work addresses the ambiguous nature of sound which is at once material-spatial and temporal-ephemeral, and shows an increasing preoccupation with the contexts of listening and how they are manifest in ‘situated instances of hearing’.

Recent installations directly engage the every-day acoustic environment, plumbing notions of ‘place’ that are constructed by way of frequency interdependencies between sound, location and listener. For example in his work Crescents (2010), an accumulation of time-delayed acoustic reflections establish a series of arced resonances between listeners, the structure of a hydroplane hanger and sonic remnants from that site. In 2010 he began a multi-format project titled Listening Subjects concerning the coexistence of multiple, at times contradictory, ‘acoustic epistemologies’ shaping contemporary configurations of listening.

Raviv completed his architectural studies at the Cooper Union, New York and received a second degree from the Institute of Sonology at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague. He has been teaching architectural design in the graduate program at TU Delft (studio Border Conditions), and is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology where he teaches two courses: Sound and Space and Aural Tectonics.

Photo: John Grzinich